Cashews. Just love them. The caviar of all nuts, in my opinion.

this is a male.

Ramphastos dicolorus (Red-breasted Toucan) aka Green-billed Toucan.

Bycanistes bucinator (Trumpeter Hornbill) - an adult male.

Hi Everton,
It seems like I am always destined to be the bearer of bad tidings.

The ID is incorrect. The bill is much too strong for M. pygmaeus, among other things. This is an adult male bird. In M. pygmaeus, that little red spot above the upper mandibular base (usually called a nasal tuft) is yellow. Also this bird on feel is a much larger Woodpecker than the decidedly compact pygmaeus (which is ca. 8 cm. shorter than this bird, i.e., ca. 17 cm. long).

So, what is this? There is another Melanerpes sympatric to pygmaeus, and which normally also has the nasal tuft yellowish, with the exception of race dubius which is exactly that which is sympatric to M. pygmaeus in the Yucatan peninsula, but has a red nasal tuft.

This is an adult male Melanerpes aurifrons dubius (Golden-fronted Woodpecker).

All the same, a nice bird even if not the one you wanted.

Now split from brachyura. Pitta moluccensis.

Hi Gert,
Very nice write-up. However, I am afraid you will have to discard it.

They should put some labels on the cages in the Zoo.

This is not Nomascus. It is not even a Gibbon. The length of the anterior limbs should have been an indication that this animal does not proceed by arboreal brachiation (which requires extremely elongated, and slender limbs).

This is, however, a very rare monkey indeed. The most recent census numbers this species at somewhere around 2,500 members.

Indigenous only to the Western Ghats (SW Peninsular India).

This is Macaca silenus (Lion-tailed Macaque).

It is unfortunate that you were not able to see the tail (which this species has), and that Gibbons do not have being anthropoid apes.

Hi Annick,
No problem on the ID. It is the only Drongo in Namibia as far as I know. Though I can not see the belly, this would appear to be an immature heavily involved in moulting into adult plumage (v. the juxtacarpal primaries, and outermost secondaries). Also evident the very worn rectrical termini, as well as the growing-in primaries (you can see them advancing while growing distally along the rachides of the primaries)of those primaries not yet shed but with the typical tapering of the tips of worn feathers.

Phil,
You are probably right on the species. It would appear to be a second year male bird transitioning to adult.

However, the scientific binomen is Ficedula mugimaki!

Ozgur,
Well, feathers, not hair. So a bird.

I will just throw a dart at a long list of about 10,000 birds possible and see where it hits!

The dart pierced the name of Asio otus (Long-eared Owl).

Anywhere near?